Why do Pokemon never die while battling?

I mean they do tons of crazy stuff like shooting fire and electricity at each other. How are there never any casualties in the midst of a battle? Pokemon can die in other circumstances but why not battling? Remember that Charmander that almost died from being left in the rain yet Charmanders can apparently survive being blasted by hydro pump and survive?

Pleaselog inorregisterto add a comment.

The answer is quite simple……its a child’s game/show.

Yes, there are a great deal of the audience that are older, mainly the ones into the competitive side of game, but above all else the main audience that Game Freak makes these games and shows for are children. Depicting something like murder and death aren’t something that they tend to do and when they do depict death in the series its typically not shown on screen and/or is hinted at, never explicitly stated.

One example of a Pokemon that died is AZ’s Floette, which apparently died during a war. Since Pokemon don’t die during trainer battles, there must be some difference between a trainer battle and a war that allows death in one but not the other. I thought of two reasonable possibilities. First, in a trainer battle, the Pokemon are always being closely supervised by their trainers. The trainers always recall their Pokemon immediately after they faint, and before any of their injuries gets bad enough to kill the Pokemon. The second possibility is what Olli mentioned, which is that Pokemon battling is supposed to be a sport, and the Pokemon somehow refrain from killing each other in battles.